Display-rack.



No. 769,848. L PATENTED SEPT. 13, 1904. G. L. TAYLOR.

DISPLAY RACK.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 4. 1904.

N0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented September 13, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

DISPLAY-RACK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 769,848, dated September 13, 1904.

Application filed April 4, 1904:. Serial No. 201,515. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES LEE TAYLOR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Wichita, in the county of Sedgwick and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Display-Racks, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to display-racks, and more particularly to that class of racks designed for displaying small articles'such as handkerchiefs, hosiery, gloves, or other articles of a light and soft naturethe object thereof being to so construct the same that it will not be necessary to carefully and steadily place the article on the hooks, as is customary, but the salesman may simply thrust or throw the article at the same, and the numerous small wires composing the hooks will clutch the article, and said wires will give when the article is detached, so that there is no fear of tearing the same.

In the drawings forming a part of this specification, and in which like symbols of reference represent corresponding parts in the several views, Figure l is a longitudinal View of the complete device. Fig. 2 is a transverse view of the same. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal and vertical section showing the wires composing the device; and Fig. i is a plan View of a modification, showing the rod composed of sections.

1 represents a bar of metal, wood, or other material, the same having perforations 2 along its length for the reception of numerous small wires 3, the same constituting the hooks of my device. The bar 1 may, if desired, be composed of two pieces having semicircular recesses 4, as shown in Fig. 4, so that when the same are connected together over the wires they hold the same.

The upper parts of the wires are turned into loops 5 and are struck apart or separated, as shown at 6, so as to form a clasp for the pricecards 7.

8 represents eyebolts attached to the bar 1 and having chains 9 for suspending the device in any convenient place.

10 illustrates the handkerchiefs attached to the hooks.

The main object of the device is to so form the hooks or suspending devices of a number or bunch of small wires, so that by a simple blow with a blunt instrument the ends may be thrown out at different angles. In placing the articles on the hooks or taking them off the same it is not, as before explained, necessary to carefully manipulate the same, but a simple thrust or stab will cause the minute Wires to grasp and hold the article. Likewise the salesman may grab or grasp the handkerchief in the roughest manner possible and drag it from the hooks without fear of tearing the same, as is the case where rigid hooks or the like devices are employed.

The operation will be apparent from the foregoing description.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a display-rack, suspending devices, composed of numerous small wires adapted to be struck up at an angle to retain the article and to yield with the article when the same is drawn from the wires, and means for holding the wires.

2. In a display-rack, suspending devices composed of numerous small wires, in com- 

